The new Premier League season is about to commence and, rather oddly, the question on everyone’s lips is not who will win the title but how Manchester United are going to fare. A soap opera to rival television’s more traditional Mancunian output is taking shape now that Louis van Gaal knows his way around England and the Old Trafford purse strings have been loosened to the extent that buying or selling almost anyone seems possible. This is not merely a northern perspective, either. While José Mourinho remains in charge at Chelsea the general perception is that that is where the title will end up, so not much conversational interest is to be whipped up there. It might just be...
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